On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to compile the linuxboot disk:
$ make download $ make
[... stuff ...]
mkdir -p stage1/usr/sbin/ ; cp -f dmidecode-2.4/dmidecode stage1/usr/sbin/dmidecode.tmp ; strip stage1/usr/sbin/dmidecode.tmp ; mv stage1/usr/sbin/dmidecode.tmp stage1/usr/sbin/dmidecode
make: stat:dosemu-20040606/configure: Too many levels of symbolic links
make: *** No rule to make target `dosemu-20040606/configure', needed by `build-dosemu-20040606/config.status'. Stop.
The reason is that and are symlinks to itself.
I guess the reason is that you've download both via CVS, e.g. ps fax says:
14318 pts/4 S+ 0:00 | | \_ /bin/sh -c what=glibc-20040606 && module=libc && repo=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
14319 pts/4 S+ 0:00 | | \_ cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/glibc checkout -D 2004060
I have no direct connection to the internet from the host I want to built unattend on, so this fails -- but "make download" does not bail out unfortunately. The remaining stuff seems to get downloaded via http_proxy=XYZ just fine.
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Another suggestion for customizing the linux boot image.
For those dumb end users like myself, for whom the pre-made linux boot iso is working, but the share data is "unhappy", e.g. other server, name, account info, it would be nice, when this information could be injected into the ready image. I currently load the iso into VI, search for "ntserver" and patch my share info over it. As long as the name is not longer than the default one, it works fine.
How about to put this information into a separate file, say "/etc/unattend.conf"; make it a 512 Byte file, in order to ensure there is enough space for all the information and it fits into one block of data in the iso image; place same magic line into line #0 (in order to find the file's data block within the iso image easily); and have there all the data defined, e.g. Z_USER, Z_PASS and Z_PATH.
Bye,
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Steffen Kaiser
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